Child developement - Families
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- Created on: 18-04-15 14:12
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- Child Development: Families
- What does a family provide?
- A family is the basic unit of society.
- - a secure and stable environment, with good roles and appropriate routines.
- -encouragement and praise, which develops self-esteem and confidence.
- -love, affection and comfort
- -commun-ication and socialistaion skills
- -physical and health care
- -culture
- Types of Family
- Nuclear family
- parents and child live together and contact with other family members is limited.
- Extended family
- Parents and children live with or near relatives. Pratcal and emotion support is easily given
- Step family
- when one or both people in a couple have children from a previous relationship. Can be hard to establish new relationships
- single-parent family
- Where there is only one parent caring for the child or children
- Shared care family
- children live in two households and spend time with both parents. Joint decisions are made about children
- Adoptive family
- Where the child llives with parents who aren't their biological parents
- Looked after children
- Children who are cared for by the local authority
- Foster families
- Where a child lives with a family for temporary amount of time
- Residental care homes
- Provide short term care for children, a small group of children are all looked after by the same people
- Nuclear family
- Planning a family:
- What to consider:
- Are you...
- Fit and Healthy
- Too young or Too old
- Mature enough for the responsiblity
- Willing to change your lifestyle
- Do you...
- Have a stable relationhip
- Realistic expectations of children
- Finacial stable and have support and suitable living conditions
- Are you...
- Why you shouldn't have a baby:
- To have someone to look after and to love and vice versa
- To prove your mature or to improve a relationship
- Peer pressure
- What to consider:
- Roles and structure:
- Roles are changing
- Women aren't expected to only look after children and stay at home
- Men are allowed to take paternity leave for longer than 2 weeks
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- Structure:
- Un-married mothers are accepted
- Divorce laws are easier
- Better contraception and support and beifits
- Roles are changing
- What does a family provide?
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